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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 10, 1919 
No. 8 
TOP DRESSINGTALKS 
lVTlTROGEN for a good root system, vigorous growth and 
* that dark rich green that shows a healthy, profitable plant. 
And what will supply the nitrogen ? 
Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia 
n; 
applied as a top dressing at the rate of 100 to 150 lbs. per acre. 
The Great American Ammoniate 
ARCADIAN Sulphate of Ammonia is the well-known stand¬ 
ard article that has done you good service in your mixed fertil¬ 
izers for years past. Especially kiln-dried and ground to make 
it fine and dry. Ammonia 2514% guaranteed. Made in U.S. A 
For tale by: NEW YORK: New York; The Coe-Mortimer Co., The American Agri¬ 
cultural Chemical Co., Nassau Fertilizer Co., W. E. Whann Co., Patapsco Guano Co., 
The National Fertilizer Co., Bowker Fertilizer Co., Frederick Ludlam Co. NEW 
JERSEY: Chrome; Armour Fertilizer Works, (address Baltimore, Md.) Newark; 
Listers Agricultural Chemical Works. Trenton ; Trenton Bono Fertilizer Co. CON¬ 
NECTICUT : Bridgeport; The Berkshire Fertilizer Co. MASSACHUSETTS: Bostod; 
The American Agricultural Chemical Co., Bowker Fertilizer Co., The National Ferti¬ 
lizer Co. VERMONT: Rutland; M. E. Wheeler Co. 
For information .-y N ew York 
as to apphca - 1 he Company _ _ w 
lion, write (ye*^ N. Y. 
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT 
The “PENNFIELD-SPRING 
LEVER” CULTIVATOR 
Gardeners and all users of wheel hoes, with 
a Pennfield you con do the work easier and 
in less than half the time at an 
even walking gait. All effort is 
straight ahead and does not 
crush the wheel into the ground 
nor tire the wrists. Body is always 
3 to 5 inches from 
Spring Lever to 
which arm braces 
are attached. Ad¬ 
justable forged 
steel hoes, 8 !4 ins. 
of hook and V 
shaped. Crated for 
shipment, $12.50. 
With 2 extra opening and hilling plows, $13.75. 
Ordor NOW and be ready for the season. 
J. M. HARTMAN COMPANY 
Box No. 322 A, LEBANON, PA., 1). S. A. 
U. S. Pat. Office 
WALLBOAPD 
at $12 pet* M 
less !! 
Our enormous 
purchase means lowest prices 
—-only $25 per 1000 feet (Kejpi- 
tarly $25 to $40). 4 ply hoard in 
panels 4x8 ft. Every panel 
backed by our $10,000guarantee 
of money-hack - if - not - satis¬ 
fied. WVte for Bulletin of 
Bargains. 
Manufacturers Outlet Dept. 
Buffalo Houscwrocking 
& Salvage Co. 
500 Walden Ave. Buffalo, N. Y. 
Cue 
million 
feei 
purchased 
from ike 
Government 
Two Excellent Vegetable Bocks 
By R. L V/alts 
Vegetable Gardening.$1.75 
Vegetable Forcing.2.00 
For sale by 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th St., New York 
r O. K. Champion Sprayer., 
INSURE the 
* potatoes and 
other 
vege¬ 
tables, 
also 
fruitand 
trees from dis¬ 
ease and pests. 
ALL BRASS 
double acting high pres¬ 
sure pump with relief valve. Absolute satis¬ 
faction Write today for our CD EC 
DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE, ETC. I litt. 
describing Sprayers, Planters, Diggers, etc. 
Champion Potato Machinery Co., 
151 Chicago Avenue, Hammond, Indiana. 
Pay Nothing 
Until 60 Days 
Now is the time you need a good, reliable sprayer forfruit. trees, 
vines shrubbery; forwhite-washing barns,chicken houses, hog sheds, 
etc Here’s a sprayer that will do the work thoroughly and quickly 
and pay for itself in increased profits. Prove it at our risk. Justsend 
coupon—no money-and we will ship sprayer promptly. Use it 30 
flays free. If you then decide to keep it, make first small payment 
in 00 days, balance in 00-day payments, giving you nea ly a 
Full Year to Pay 
Majestic Cia^i/ak 
A ll-Purpose w|Jl Ciywl 
This hand sprayer ia just what you want if you haven’t enough 
S ork to keep a power sprayer busy. Working parts made of brass. 
pecially constructed pump with high grade 4-ply rubber tubing. 
Automatic shut-off nozzle with non-clog spring cap. Light conveni¬ 
ent. Easily taken apart for cleaning. Contents kept continually and 
thoroughly mixed. Sprays to the last drop. 
rnrr Book of Farm Necessities 
F IT ■" P Shows wonderful bargains in gas engines, cream sep- 
I llhla arators, drills, cultivators, saw frames, circular saws, 
leeil cook-in, paints, roofing, etc. Write postal for free copy, 
ojrai jra coupon today for this sprayer and take nearly a year 
dEfVU to pay if you like it. Just the coupon. No money. 
-THE HARTMAN COMPANY- 
4018 LaS.lt. St., Dept 1778 Chicago 
fiend »piayei No.'laSAMAtO. If satisfactory I will pay 12.00 in 60 days, 
balance in 80-aiey payments of 12.00 eaeii until price of tli Wi is paid. Other¬ 
wise I will return it in 30 day:. and you pay transportation both way*. 
Nam*. 
Address. 
Things to Think About 
How About the Farmers? 
“A reader of the New York World, 
writing in defence of the ‘daylight sav¬ 
ing’ scheme, makes the point that it is 
pleasing to the night workers beeause it 
gives them one hour more of refreshing 
sleep. ‘All night workers,’ lie says, ‘know 
how difficult it is to fall asleep in broad 
daylight, but given one hour of darkness 
that trouble disappears.’ 
"Exactly. But the point applies with a 
hundred times more force to the farmers 
and farm laborers of the country, because 
there are more than 10,000.000 of them, 
not including their wives and families. In 
midsummer they have to go to bed in 
broad daylight, and they may also find it 
difficult to fiill asleep under the condi¬ 
tions. Arc they not also to be consid¬ 
ered?” 
Not all the city folks are ‘‘agin” the 
farmers. The Post always stands by 
them. F. I*. BRIGGS. 
Grape Growers and Prohibition 
Due to the increased demand for grape 
juice as a beverage, many Ohio farmers 
and gardeners are preparing to set out 
larger areas of vineyards this Spring, ac¬ 
cording to the department of horticulture 
at the Ohio Experiment Station. The 
grape juice industry, it is believed, will 
develop into as large a business as the 
manufacture of wine, which has been as 
high as 2,000,000 gallous annually. 
This report comes from the Ohio Ex¬ 
periment Station. Our own reports show 
much the same thing. In spite of the 
fear that prohibition may greatly curtail 
‘lie wine industry, grape planting is still 
heavy and most growers seem to think 
that a good market may still be found 
for the grapes. Our own opinion is that 
the claim made by the liquor interests 
that growers of grapes, barley, rye and 
corn must depend on the liquor business 
for life or support is a great bluff, which 
will be fully exploded inside of five years. 
Farm Wages in Idaho 
I enclose a letter from my employment 
agent in Spokane. I am sorely in need of 
help to fix fences and do Spring seeding. 
I have an 18-year-old boy employed at $60 
and board who is scrupulously observing 
the eight-hour day and promptly un¬ 
hitches at five o’clock and leaves the boss 
to milk five cows, feed the pigs and chick¬ 
ens, get in the wood and do the rest of the 
chores, while he goes to town. Under 
the present conditions I’ll confess I don’t 
quite understand all that is said in the 
papers about- the problem of unemploy¬ 
ment. Surely the high cost of living falls 
on the employer, as we foot the grocery 
bills. The outlook for clearing up more 
land and fencing it for cropping is dismal, 
as the war prices for labor, powder and 
wire seem to continue. 1 wish some of 
those consumers who think it a privilege 
for someone to come around in the gray 
dawn and leave a full milk bottle would 
try it. C. I. WHITE. 
Idaho. 
The letter from the employment agent 
states that men demand $65 per month 
“and won’t go for less.” We did not sup¬ 
pose farm labor conditions in the North¬ 
west were such that a “hold-up” is pos¬ 
sible. 
Fooling with the Rural Routes 
Have you noted the proposed changes 
that are to be made in the R. F. I). ser¬ 
vice, that are to take effect soon? I have 
no way of knowing how widespread the 
changes are, but in this locality there 
seems to be a general shake-up in pros- 
l>ect. Some routes are to be discontinued, 
or rather some carriers are, and the terri¬ 
tory served is to be added to others, and 
some carriers are to be transferred to 
other parts of the county, which is a 
hardship, especially those who have a 
family and own a place. The proposed 
plan may work out all right in the Sum¬ 
mer, but I don’t see how we are going to 
get deliveries made in tin* Winter time. 
It looks like a plan to practice “economy,” 
now that the war is over, and pay off the 
farmers for their part by letting them 
help. It seems the R. F. D. men are not 
getting much increase for the added miles, 
like the telephone people who were taken 
over after the armistice, as we have to 
nay 25c a month additional the first of 
May. If this R. F. D. revision extends 
all over the State or the entire country 
in the same or s’milar way as proposed 
here, there are going to be some mad 
farmers during the next 12 mouths. 
IRVING O. CROSS. 
Rensselaer Co., N. Y. 
We have been informed of this disas¬ 
trous move, and have tried quietly to pre¬ 
vent it. The present management of the 
Post (iffice Department is very arbitrary, 
and the present protest against the Post¬ 
master General is wide and deep seated. 
This fooling with the rural routes is 
causing loss and annoyance to our readers. 
We have a constant string of complaints 
about it. and the department apparently 
pays no attention. 
An Agricultural History Society 
I was very much interested in the item 
by Mr. Edward Moseman, Vermont, on 
page (iS4. We hu\ e recently organized an 
Agricultural Historical Society and have 
about 140 members at the present time. 
The society is meeting with much favor, 
and I believe is going to be very useful in 
the field which it is intended to cover. 
We are very anxious to obtain original 
source material like this account book, or 
minute books of the early agricultural so¬ 
cieties. We know there must be a number 
of these in the possession of various fam¬ 
ilies. If any of your readers who pos¬ 
sess such materials will send them in by 
registered mail, or any other safe means 
of transportation, to me, I will see that 
they are properly cared for here, will have 
the valuable portions photographed for 
our library in the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, and return the originals to their 
owners. We are planning to issue our 
first volume this Summer; among other 
things it will contain a copy of the minute 
book of the Albemarle Agricultural So¬ 
ciety of Virginia, which was organized 
early in the nineteenth century, by a 
group of men, many of whom were famous 
in American history, lyman carrier, 
Secretary-Treasurer. 
Washington, D. C. 
“Bill Baldwin’s Soliloquy” 
BY A. FAIRDEAL 
There are no doubt millions of folks in 
this country who know me, but as yet 
have not looked upon me as a talker. 
Now. I purpose letting you know I am 
some talker. Just listen to me soliloquize. 
I, red-cheeked and rosy, am now in the 
hands of chubby Roland McDonald of 
Covington, Ky., and I feel quite sure 
about to be devoured ; nevertheless let this 
deathbed monologue serve to put wise 
some human bipeds who learn slowly. 
Last August I. with many of my kind, 
huug gaily in the breeze upon a tree in 
Niagara Co., N. Y. The tree was in au 
orchard owned by James Arnold. Well, 
ere we had reached our maturity, one 
Mr. Blanchard, a local fruit buyer, came 
to Mr. Arnold and purchased us for $3 
per barrel (three bushels in barrel). So 
matters stood until September 30, when 
Mr. Ilood, from Rochester, came into the 
vicinity buying apples for a Chicago 
house. Consequence. Mr. Blanchard dis¬ 
posed of his holding to Mr. Hood at $3.50 
per barrel. Picking time came on. and 
we were picked, packed and placed in a 
cold storage house in a village near Mr. 
Arnold's farm. There we reposed until 
about a month after the world war closed, 
when the news spread over Western New 
York that space was available for export¬ 
ing apples to Europe. This proved a 
fact, and dealers who were in the habit of 
exporting apples began to look around to 
increase their holdings, and one Mr. Poe 
came to Mr. Ilood and offered $6 per bar¬ 
rel for us, put aboard the cars. Now 
mind, we were resting upon a $3.50 pur¬ 
chase with an additional 50c for storage. 
But Mi’. Hood, like the good gambler that 
most fruit men are, said nay to his offer, 
and we still reposed in storage until 
March 25. when Mr. Jones of Cincinnati, 
O., came along and put up $9.50 per bill, 
for us. a neat sum for profit for Mr. 
Hood, who pocketed $5.50 profit on each 
barrel. We were sent to Cincinnati, O., 
via Big Four Railroad, in a refrigerator 
car, and when we landed there had trans¬ 
portation charges added to us, making us 
stand Mr. Jones $10.65 per bbl. Jones, a 
carlot distributor, sold us for $11.20 per 
bbl. to Alex. Garden & Co. of Covington, 
Ky., who, by the way, are local fruit 
jobbers, and they trucked us over to 
Covington. Ky.. and sold us to Porter & 
Jacobs, the grocers, for $11.75 per bbl. 
Porter & Jacobs’ wagon route man sold 
Mrs. McDonald a half peek of us for the 
sum of 65c. That is how I come to be in 
Roland’s hands at this moment. Roland’s 
father happens to have a good job, else no 
apples for Roland. I only wish I could 
haul up iu front of my audience all the 
little Georges, Ilarrys, etc., who have 
longed for the red apples and had to go 
without them because of this excess profit 
by speculators. I, only a red apple, of 
course can hardly conceive of a people 
with brain permitting such an unwise 
distribution of necessaries of life, when 
co-ordination and co-operation on the part 
of grower and consumer would eliminate 
all of the waste and cut out the gambling 
feature. If a zone system of distribution 
is good in auything. it surdly would be 
good in perishables, as the elimination by 
waste would be reduced by at least 25 
per cent. 
If middlemen were not such good poli¬ 
ticians and managed to keep up a con¬ 
tinual doubt and distrust on the part of 
grower and consumer, then perhaps a key 
to the solution might be evolved. I grant 
you there are more honest men among 
consumers and producers than there are 
in the traffic of life’s necessities. 
